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- Conclusion in the CES Letter
- Could Joseph Smith's theology as described in the Book of Abraham have been influenced by Thomas Dick's book The Philosophy of a Future State?
- Critical claim: LDS scholars such as Dee F. Green have stated that Book of Mormon archaeology is a "myth"
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Understanding Mormon Disbelief/Schacter quote
- Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/Letter to a CES Director/Original version
- Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Robert Ritner
- Criticisms of Brigham Morris Young
- Criticisms of Dallin H. Oaks
- Criticisms of M. Russell Ballard
- Criticisms of Russell M. Nelson
- DavidSmith BOM categorization
- Daviess County, Missouri
- Deseret Book
- Deseret News
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Introduction
- Did Joseph Smith "retrofit" his "treasure seeking" to have a religious explanation
- Did Joseph Smith and his contemporaries believe in supernatural entities with real power
- Did Joseph Smith believe that he was better than Jesus Christ?
- Did Joseph Smith sacrifice a dog while treasure seeking
- Differences in First Vision accounts
- Discrepancies Between Translations: Book of Mormon, King James Version, Joseph Smith Translation
- Do Latter-day Saints believe that Christ suffered on the cross
- Doctrinal completeness of the Bible
- E. B. Grandin
- Elder's Journal/2
- Eleven official witnesses to the Book of Mormon
- Engravings on and sealed portion of the gold plates
- Enos
- Ether
- Evaluating Plagiarism Accusations
- Examples of changes to the Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Does Not Speak for the Church/FAIR in the News
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Abraham
- FAIR Study Aids/Book of Mormon Resources by chapter and verse/Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- FAIR Study Aids/Church History
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Doctrine and Covenants
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Gospel Principles
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/New Testament
- FAIR Study Aids/Gospel Doctrine/Old Testament
- Faith crisis draft 1
- First Vision in the CES Letter
- Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
- Gold plates and the translation process
- Gospel Topics: Our theology begins with heavenly parents. Our highest aspiration is to be like them
- Gospel of Judas
- Hannah S. Ells
- Haun's Mill massacre
- Helaman
- How do we know the Quorum of the Twelve were the divinely appointed successors?
- Hyrum Smith
- Indian Student Placement Services program
- Intelligent life on other worlds
- Introduction, Title Page, Witnesses' Testimonies; Historical Studies of its Coming Forth; and Miscellaneous Items of Interest
- Introduction in the CES Letter
- Is polygamy sexist?
- Isaiah and the Book of Mormon
- Jacob
- James B. Allen (historian)
- Jan Shipps
- Jarom
- Jesus Christ/Jesus as the Jewish Messiah
- John F. Boynton
- Joseph F. Smith
- Joseph Smith's witness of Jesus Christ
- Joseph Smith/Healings and miracles/Fanny Stenhouse accounts
- Joseph Smith/Polygamy/Did women turn Joseph down/Further Reading
- Joseph Smith: "I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature"
- Joseph Smith (1834): "during this time, as is common to most, or all youths, I fell into many vices and follies"
- Kinderhook Plates & Translator Claims in the CES Letter
- Latter-day Saint history
- Latter-day Saint scripture/Biblical Figures
- Latter-day Saint teachings
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Clarifying Latter-day Saint Teachings
- Latter-day Saint teachings/Obedience
- Latter-day Saints and the environment
- Latter-day Saints and the symbol of the cross
- Liberty Jail
- Lilburn Boggs
- Louisa Beaman
- Mandatory reporting of abuse
- MediaWiki
- Modern Witnesses
- Money spent on temples
- Mormon
- MormonFAQ/Church Discipline
- Mormonism and Latter-day Saints
- Mormonism and disability
- Mormonism and disability/Statements from Latter-day Saint leaders regarding disability
- Mormonism and doctrine/Publications/Statements by Church leaders
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 1978 conference talk/Quotes on legitimacy of self-defense
- Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk/Table
- Mormonism and gender issues/Transgenderism
- Mormonism and history/Censorship and revision/LDS histories over many years omit plural marriage
- Mormonism and priesthood/Evidence for Possession of Priesthood Authority
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations
- Mormonism and racial issues/Latter-day Saint and Native American Relations/The Indian Student Placement Program
- Mormonism and racial issues/Removing racial prejudice
- Mormonism and the environment/Quotes from Church leaders
- Moroni
- Mosiah
- Muhammad
- Not Before the World
- Oakland Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
- Old Question: Why should Latter-day Saints not wear crosses?
- Omni
- Other Resources on Brigham Young and the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Other animals in the Book of Mormon
- Other in the CES Letter
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Captain Stewart Van Vliet
- Others and Mountain Meadows: Colonel Thomas Kane
- Others and Mountain Meadows: George A. Smith
- Others involved in the Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Overview of baptism for the dead
- Overview of the CES Letter
- Oxford University Press
- Painesville, Ohio
- Pauline teachings
- Plagiarism in General Conference
- Plural marriage/The First Manifesto
- Polygamy and Polyandry in the CES Letter
- Portal:Test/box-footer
- Portal:Test/box-header
- Practice TOC page
- Priesthood Restoration in the CES Letter
- Primary sources/Eugene England
- Primary sources/Eugene England/Why the Church Is As True As the Gospel
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen
- Primary sources/Mark E. Petersen/Race Problems - As They Affect the Church
- Prophets in the CES Letter
- Question: Are General Authorities paid more than $300,000 per year?
- Question: Are Latter-day Saints really commanded to avoid r-rated movies?
- Question: Are chariots an anachronism for the Book of Abraham?
- Question: Are slings anachronistic to the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Are the scriptures mysoginistic/sexist?
- Question: Are we allowed to pray to our "Heavenly Mother"
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names “Moroni” and “Cumorah” from stories he read as a youth, maps that he would have had access to, or other people within his local vicinity?
- Question: Could the list of items on Joseph's person at the time of his death have been incomplete
- Question: Did Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary significanly influence the JST?
- Question: Did B.H. Roberts state that it was possible for Joseph Smith to have come up with the Book of Mormon on his own
- Question: Did Brigham Young block prosecution of the individuals responsible for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Brigham Young order the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
- Question: Did Elder Richard G. Scott teach that victims of abuse are responsible for their abuse?
- Question: Did Harold B. Lee state that a person’s economic status or disability were the result of less valiance in the premortal existence?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith's family and other Book of Mormon witnesses support James Strang's movement after Joseph's death?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith, Sr. practice "divination"
- Question: Did Joseph Smith contradict Jesus’ commandment in the Book of Mormon to not add to nor take away from Jesus' Gospel?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith derive his religious ideas in part from a mysticism called Kabbalah
- Question: Did Joseph Smith engage in "land speculation" in Nauvoo
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have a Jupiter talisman on his person at the time of his death
- Question: Did Joseph Smith plagiarize sources from the American Revolution?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith really tell Orrin Porter Rockwell 'it was right to steal'
- Question: Did Joseph Smith riff off of Hebrews 7 to produce the material discussing Melchizedek in Alma 12 and 13?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use Paul as a template for the character Alma in the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Did Joseph Smith use entheogens to effectuate the founding of the Church?
- Question: Did Russell M. Nelson exaggerate his story about being in a falling airplane?
- Question: Did early members of the "Mormon" Church believe in witchcraft
- Question: Did the Church achieve its objectives with the City Creek Center project?
- Question: Did the Church use tithing funds to finance the purchases and buildings?
- Question: Do Joseph Smith's personality and temperament indicate that he was not a true prophet of God
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints believe in a female divine person, a "Heavenly Mother" as counterpart to God, the Heavenly Father
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints claim to be the only ones that can experience the fullness of happiness on this earth?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints have to "buy their way into heaven" since the Church requires that you be a full-tithe payer to enter the temple?
- Question: Do the changes in the Book of Mormon Isaiah passages reflect a better translation of the underlying Hebrew?
- Question: Does Lehi contradict Jeremiah 27 and prove himself a false prophet?
- Question: Does Lucy Mack Smith's mention of the "faculty of Abrac" and "magic circles" evidence that "magick" played a strong role in the Smith family's early life
- Question: Does The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints prohibit its members from using playing cards?
- Question: Does the Book of Mormon’s reference to “slippery treasures” stem from Joseph Smith’s involvement in money digging and the occult
- Question: Has The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deceived its members regarding controversial issues about its origins, history, and/or scripture?
- Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint approach responding to criticism of the Church on biblical grounds?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile alleged failed prophecies made by prophets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile claimed theological anachronisms in the scriptures?
- Question: How can a Latter-day Saint reconcile the opinions of biblical scholars who say that certain figures of the Bible are not historical?
- Question: How can one reconcile the patriarchal blessings given to blacks during the priesthood and temple bans?
- Question: How can you know if an answer to prayer, a personal revelation, is true?
- Question: How could the plate text actually fit on the plates of the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How did Joseph Smith use his seer stones as a youth
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints understand the concept of love?
- Question: How do the witnesses of the Book of Mormon compare to the witnesses of Philemon Stewart's ''A Holy, Sacred and Divine Roll and Book; From the Lord God of Heaven, to the Inhabitants of Earth''?
- Question: How may criticism of the Church over LGBT issues become fiercer in the future and how can members respond?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of harm?
- Question: How should we collectively view the concept of judgement?
- Question: How should we interpret Ezekiel 37 regarding the Book of Mormon?
- Question: How should we understand the concept of worthiness?
- Question: How should we view the concept of shame?
- Question: If gender is “enforced”, is it true that it can’t be immutable?
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist
- Question: Is Heavenly Mother not talked about more because the prophets are sexist?
- Question: Is Jesus the promised Messiah of the Old Testament?
- Question: Is an evangelist really a patriarch?
- Question: Is belief in the Book of Mormon’s historicity essential to Latter-day Saint theology?
- Question: Is gender a social construct?
- Question: Is it true that little is known about our Heavenly Mother because she is "protected"
- Question: Is same-gender sexual attraction immutable?
- Question: Should Latter-day Saints eat fruit seasonally?
- Question: Should there be archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Should “the plains” of Moreh in the Book of Abraham actually be “the oak” of Moreh?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's family lazy, shiftless and seeking to make a living without performing any labor?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith’s only mission to bring forth the Book of Mormon?
- Question: Was a "magic dagger" once owned by Hyrum Smith
- Question: Was a "vagabond fortune-teller" named Walters Joseph Smith's "mentor"
- Question: Was the Book of Mormon figure Ishmael a descendant of Ephraim?
- Question: Was the JST ever completed?
- Question: Was the fact that the recovery of the Book of Mormon plates occurred on the autumnal equinox somehow significant
- Question: Was the reported weight of the plates too heavy for Joseph to run with?
- Question: Was the young Joseph Smith a teller of "tall tales"
- Question: Were Joseph Smith's spiritual experiences originally products of magic and the occult
- Question: Were Joseph and Hyrum killed by John Taylor and Willard Richards?
- Question: Were the ''Lectures on Faith'' revelations
- Question: Were there sexual relations in Joseph's marriages to women with living husbands?
- Question: What are appropriate activities for the Sabbath?
- Question: What are some ways that other religious traditions may not be as loving as that of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: What are the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: What are the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Barton Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did David Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Henry Harris claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Parley Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Peter Ingersoll claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did Willard Chase claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did William Stafford claim about Joseph Smith in the Hurlbut affidavits
- Question: What did the Hurlbut affidavits say about Martin Harris
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits claim about the Smith family's character and reliability
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about Joseph Smith claiming that he was "as good as Jesus Christ"
- Question: What do the Hurlbut affidavits say about the Spalding manuscript and the Book of Mormon
- Question: What do the scriptures say about the issue of abortion?
- Question: What does it mean when two people receive revelation with contradictory answers to the same question?
- Question: What does the Family Proclamation mean when it says fathers "preside" over their families?
- Question: What does the Lord intend by commanding that we refrain from “loud laughter”?
- Question: What evidence can The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints give for their possession of God's priesthood?
- Question: What is apologetics? Why are you apologizing?
- Question: What is sexism?
- Question: What is the New World Archaeological Foundation? What does it have to do with the Book of Mormon?
- Question: What is the difference between agency and freedom?
- Question: What is the distinction between belief in "folk magic" and a religious belief in the supernatural
- Question: What is the nature of the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)?
- Question: What is the probability that Joseph Smith possessed items related to "magic"
- Question: What is the relationship between the JST and biblical manuscripts?
- Question: What is the scriptural basis for the restriction on homosexual sexual behavior in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
- Question: What is the significance of the temple garment worn by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what is the appropriate way to wear them?
- Question: What is the source of the story about Joseph Smith possessing a Jupiter talisman
- Question: What sort of scriptural support is there for the doctrines of The Family: A Proclamation to the World?
- Question: What was the MX Missile System?
- Question: What was the translation procedure used by Joseph Smith and his scribes to produce the JST?
- Question: What were the attitudes of Joseph Smith and his contemporaries toward "magic"
- Question: When, if ever, is it okay to disagree with Church leaders?
- Question: Which sources which mention Nephi as the angelic visitor who told Joseph Smith about the gold plates?/Later Moroni labels
- Question: Who wrote the ''Lectures on Faith''
- Question: Why are Latter-day Saint men encouraged to wear white shirts to Sunday services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?